In which I further undermine my tenure case
Prof. Karlson quotes from a Chronicle debate over the question, Are Too Many Students Going to College?, specifically the reaction of W. Norton Grubb of Berkeley: We do have a moral obligation, emerging from several centuries of concern with equity in a highly inequitable country, to make access to and completi

QotD, Stupak amendment edition
From TigerHawk’s reaction to the furor surrounding the Stupak anti-abortion amendment to the House version of the health care bill: The real problem, of course, is that this fight reveals the ugly truth of statist health care: That personal medical decisions are no longer a matter of private bargaining, but of political argument. The fight over abortion funding is not an exception, it is a harbinger. Medical decisions are becoming more ethically complex and culturally c

On excessive moderation
As Steven Taylor notes, the third-party candidacy by Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd congressional district seems to have backfired, delivering a solid Republican seat for generations to Democratic candidate Bill Owens. While some conservatives like my Twitter pal (and OG blogger) Jayvie Canono have suggested that Republican nominee Dede “Scozzafava would’ve been a vote for the Dems,” one of the iron la

There's your problem
Laredo’s population: well over 200,000. Number of bookstores in Laredo, effective January 2010: zero.

Yeah, that will fix the problem
The SEC is going to fix its officiating problems by… blaming the messenger: Commissioner Mike Slive told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday that coaches who violate the conferences’ ethics rules against criticizing officials in public will face a fine or suspension instead of receiving public reprimands when they first act up. “It became clear to me after last week that I was no longer interested in reprimands and the conference a